The Functions of Language By Louis Hébert Professor, Université du Québec à Rimouski louis_hebert@uqar.ca 1. ABSTRACT JAKOBSON Jakobson’s model of the functions of language distinguishes six elements, or factors of communication, that are necessary for communication to occur: (1) context, (2) addresser (sender), (3) addressee (receiver), (4) contact, (5) common code and (6) message. Each factor is the focal point of a relation, or function, that operates between the message and the factor. The functions…

Academic Language in every subject Hamstead Hall Academy Trust Thursday 29th September 2016 “an intelligent approach to language development to ensure sustainable whole school improvement.” (HMI verbal report January 2016) Programme Overview A day’s course exploring the following; What does EAL mean to you? What is literacy? What are the challenges for us as teachers? The Functional model of language Academic language The register continuum A Teaching and Learning Cycle to scaffold language and literacy…

Just published! The Lexico-grammatical Categories of Theme as an Index of Genre in Discourse Analysis: A Functional Approach. by Anwar El-Issa The book is based on systemic-functional grammar (SFG) and focuses on the concept of Theme (the element which occupies the initial position in the clause in English), which plays a special role in the textual organization of the message contained in the clause. Theme represents one of the ways by which writers construct meaningful…

Just published! Context in the System and Process of Language Ruqaiya Hasan Edited by Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong Volume 4 of The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan HB 9781904768395 £60 PB 9781904768401 £25 512 pages, 33 figures Receive 25% off quoting the code Context when ordering from the book page where further details on the book including full contents are displayed: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/context-system-process-language-collected-works-ruqaiya-hasan-vol-4/

World Englishes “broke the traditional pattern of such deliberations: no inconvenient question was swept under the rug. The professionals, both linguists and literary scholars, and native and non-native users of English, had frank and stimulating discussions. The English-using community in various continents was for the first time viewed in its totality. A number of cross-cultural perspectives were brought to bear upon our understanding of English in a global context, of language variation, of language acquisition, and…

The notion of ‘bilingual creativity’, defined by Kachru (1985: 20) as “those creative linguistic processes which are the result of competence in two or more languages” Kachru, Braj B. (1985) The bilinguals’ creativity. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 6, 20–33.